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ONE MAN'S OPINIONS
BY N. D. COCHRAN
The Progressive Future. If the
Progressive party has patience and
remains progressive, it may win out.
Its ODDOrtunitv in 1912 wmilri have
M been great had Wilson not been nom
inated at Baltimore; for with Tart
on the G. O. P. ticket and a reac
tionary on the Democratic ticket, real
progressives would have rushed to
gether in the Progressive party.
Wilson's nomination set the mpve
ment back. His election, and his
progressive policy, have held it back.
But Wilson is more progressive
than his party, which is made up of
all political odds and ends from radi
cal progressiveism to rank reaction
aryism just as the Republican party
was in 1912. It has been a hard fight
for Wilson to hold together in his
party these discordant elements. He
has been aided by the newness of
political victory for that party and
the hunger for the loaves and fishes.
But there are signs of the coming
split.
Wilson's great popularity in the
end may force the split; for the party
is going back, if we may judge by
this year's nominations. There is
evidently a feeling that any old kind
of Democrat can win this year by
hanging onto the coat-tails of Wil
son's popularity. Hence the nomina
tor for senator of Sullivan in Illinois
and Tim Hogan in Ohio, both of
whom naturally classify" with the re
actionary element.
In both states the Renublican
TA party is equally reactionary with
lieutenant and later a thick-and-thin
Taft supporter, running against Ho
gan in Ohio; and in Illinois, Sher
man, fully as reactionary as Sullivan,
and with less brains and ability.
In Illinois Raymond Robins, the
Progressive nominee, is even more
progressive than his party, and will
be enthusiastically supported by the
clear-visioned labor element not be
cause he is a Progressive with a cap
ital P, but because he is Raymond1
Robins, of known progressive (small
p) record, belief and action.
There is still some suspicion of a
Progressive party with a George W.
Perkins high in its councils, and with
a Roosevelt finding fault and picking
petty flaws in Wilson's policy but
the rank and file is even more pro
gressive and less selfish than the
leaders, and it behooves the leaders
to find out where the rank and file
want to go and then lead them in'
that direction.
The party can never get anywhere
as a privately-controlled, personally
conducted circus parade.
LETTERSTOEDITOR
PRAISING WOMEN'S DRESS
Editor Day Book: Through your
useful columns I want to pay re
spects to the ladies. I want to com
pliment them on their present-day
dress styles. The style of skirt which
the ladies are wearing at present,
either plaited or plain, make them
look exceedingly sweet and ladylike
and ever so graceful. It makes them
an object of honor and respect in
stead of a target of vulgar criticism,
which the harem skirt, etc., made
thern
So now, girls, keep up the good
work and show us men that you have
enough sound judgment so as not to
make horrid-looking human carica
tures out of yourselves in the future
as you have in the not far distant
past J. McG.
POLITICS
Editor Day Book: Circumstances
alter cases, and men, for good and
better.
Let not the fair and subtle sayings
of men move you, but keep your eyes
open to watch their deeds.
He who follows his daily vocations
because of love for the same is a bet
ter citizen than an army of ward-
heelers,